Oh Young-geun, an emeritus professor at Hanyang University School of Law, will be appointed as a new standing commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission.
According to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on the 5th, President Lee Jae-myung plans to officially appoint Oh on the 6th as the successor to Standing Commissioner Kim Yong-won. The term is three years.
Oh, the new standing commissioner, is regarded as one of Korea's leading scholars of criminal law and has been noted for dedicating research to establishing an independent interpretive approach to the Criminal Act that fits Korea's provisions, rather than those of foreign countries such as Germany.
Oh served as president of the Korean Association of Criminal Law in 2012 and in 2013 served as a member of the Prosecution Reform Deliberation Committee and as a member of the Supreme Court Sentencing Commission. He also served as president of the Korean Association of Correction and the Korean Association for Youth Policy.
Earlier, the candidate recommendation committee of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) recommended four candidates, including Oh, the new standing commissioner, to the president.